Commentary on the so-called Creation/Evolution/Intelligent Design Debate and Right-Wing nuttery in general -
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Total eclipses occur, so evolution is false?

Amazingly, this is but one of the incredibly silly arguments put forth (in so many words) by Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of the anthropic-principle-writ-large "Privileged Planet" (co-written by a philosopher/theologian, no less...), against "Darwinian evolution." What, precisely, eclipses have to do with biological evolution is anyone's guess, but creationists go to extreme and illogical lengths to try to tie nearly anything to their cause.This article sums up some of Gonzalez's awe-based arguments.